I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.